Chapter 1
A tall man sat at the end of a room on his knees. The man wore a modest dark green robe, complementing his stern Japanese features, black and grey hair, and deep black eyes. He had his hand on the hilt of his long curved sword, a nodachi to be precise. His face was serene as he took orders from the man sitting across the room.
"Utsusemi," the man bellowed, "The Shainto clan has fully regrouped, they call for our blood. Our clan is outnumbered by many, and we thought you best suited for the job of killing the clan leader seeing as you were one of the last masters of the Meikyokan. Are you still up to snuff though?"
A boken was thrown in front of his feet, and five men dressed in black gi's were also wielding the wooden swords. Utsusemi picked up the boken and put it at his belt as though to sheath it, he stood perfectly still. One of the men ran into attack in a frenzied charge, Utsusemi advanced into his charge and hit the samurai in the stomach with the hilt of the sword by thrusting it out of his imaginary sheathe, after the samurai buckled over he fully unsheathed the sword and smacked the samurai across the back with the blade of his boken and he went down. The second man advanced in to strike him across the head, his strike was blocked and parried knocking him off balance, taking this moments opportunity Utsusemi sliced upwards with the wooden sword which if was real would have cleaved the man right down the middle. The third tried to feint him but to no avail, Utsusemi caught his feint and blocked it leaving the mans whole upper body open, he struck upward with the boken and hit him right in the side. The fourth mimicked the first mans charge only Utsusemi dodged him and struck him across the back. The final one came out in a flurry of blows. He was quick and Utsusemi had to block all of his strikes in rapid succession. Finally he saw an opening, He struck him on the knee and when he was down struck him across the head. The five samurai lay down at Utsusemi's feet.
"I think I'm gonna' be O.K." Utsusemi said with a grin.